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Professional Data Engineer Questions

This document contains a sample exam for the Google Professional Data Engineer certification. It includes 5 multiple choice questions about topics like machine learning models, database design, data pipelines, and Google Cloud products. The questions cover techniques like dropout methods, normalization, data streaming, caching, and error handling in data pipelines. The correct answers are provided along with short explanations and references in some cases.

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Professional Data Engineer Questions

This document contains a sample exam for the Google Professional Data Engineer certification. It includes 5 multiple choice questions about topics like machine learning models, database design, data pipelines, and Google Cloud products. The questions cover techniques like dropout methods, normalization, data streaming, caching, and error handling in data pipelines. The correct answers are provided along with short explanations and references in some cases.

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Google

PROFESSIONAL-DATA-ENGINEER Exam
Google Professional Data Engineer
Questions & Answers
Demo
Questions & Answers PDF Page 2

Version: 12.0

Topic 1, Main Questions Set A

Question: 1

Your company built a TensorFlow neural-network model with a large number of neurons and layers. The
model fits well for the training dat
a. However, when tested against new data, it performs poorly. What method can you employ to address
this?

A. Threading
B. Serialization
C. Dropout Methods
D. Dimensionality Reduction

Answer: C

Explanation:
Reference: https://medium.com/mlreview/a-simple-deep-learning-model-for-stock-price-prediction-
using-tensorflow-30505541d877

Question: 2

You are building a model to make clothing recommendations. You know a user’s fashion preference is
likely to change over time, so you build a data pipeline to stream new data back to the model as it
becomes available. How should you use this data to train the model?

A. Continuously retrain the model on just the new data.


B. Continuously retrain the model on a combination of existing data and the new data.
C. Train on the existing data while using the new data as your test set.
D. Train on the new data while using the existing data as your test set.

Answer: C

Explanation:
https://cloud.google.com/automl-tables/docs/prepare

Question: 3
Questions & Answers PDF Page 3

You designed a database for patient records as a pilot project to cover a few hundred patients in three
clinics. Your design used a single database table to represent all patients and their visits, and you used
self-joins to generate reports. The server resource utilization was at 50%. Since then, the scope of the
project has expanded. The database must now store 100 times more patient records. You can no longer
run the reports, because they either take too long or they encounter errors with insufficient compute
resources. How should you adjust the database design?

A. Add capacity (memory and disk space) to the database server by the order of 200.
B. Shard the tables into smaller ones based on date ranges, and only generate reports with prespecified
date ranges.
C. Normalize the master patient-record table into the patient table and the visits table, and create other
necessary tables to avoid self-join.
D. Partition the table into smaller tables, with one for each clinic. Run queries against the smaller table
pairs, and use unions for consolidated reports.

Answer: C

Explanation:

Question: 4

You create an important report for your large team in Google Data Studio 360. The report uses Google
BigQuery as its data source. You notice that visualizations are not showing data that is less than 1 hour
old. What should you do?

A. Disable caching by editing the report settings.


B. Disable caching in BigQuery by editing table details.
C. Refresh your browser tab showing the visualizations.
D. Clear your browser history for the past hour then reload the tab showing the virtualizations.

Answer: A

Explanation:
Reference: https://support.google.com/datastudio/answer/7020039?hl=en

Question: 5

An external customer provides you with a daily dump of data from their database. The data flows into
Google Cloud Storage GCS as comma-separated values (CSV) files. You want to analyze this data in
Google BigQuery, but the data could have rows that are formatted incorrectly or corrupted. How should
you build this pipeline?

A. Use federated data sources, and check data in the SQL query.
Questions & Answers PDF Page 4

B. Enable BigQuery monitoring in Google Stackdriver and create an alert.


C. Import the data into BigQuery using the gcloud CLI and set max_bad_records to 0.
D. Run a Google Cloud Dataflow batch pipeline to import the data into BigQuery, and push errors to
another dead-letter table for analysis.

Answer: D

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